The Biggest Fantasy Football Questions For Each Team in Week 16 (Ep. 1909)

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, everybody. Welcome into the Fantasy Pros Football Podcast. I
am Ryan Warmley, joined as I have every Friday morning,
by Derek Brown and Pat Fitzmorris Fellas.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
It is the semifinals. We have made it.

Speaker 1 (00:13):
This is the second straight year where I have gotten
several teams to the semifinals.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
I'm hoping it will.

Speaker 1 (00:18):
Not be the third straight year where nearly all of
those teams are eliminated. Of course, what would help is
if I'm not facing any of these RAMS players in
as many of these matchups as possible. What a game
Thursday Night Football, thirty eight to thirty seven in overtime,
Seahawks over the Rams. I feel like it is a
bit of a cliche. Every time we get a really

(00:38):
good game in primetime, in any kind of standalone spot,
everybody starts saying game of the year, game of the year.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
This, Deebro really could have been that.

Speaker 3 (00:46):
Yeah, I mean, I tweeted it out, is this the
game of the year, because I mean, you could easily
put in the top three, top five, however you want
to order other games this season, and it was fantastic, man,
I mean, I missed Thursday Night has kind of become
like like, you know, catching up at the gym night.
So the first half I was there and I was like,
I'm checking the score the whole time on my phone
and I'm like, hey, it doesn't look like i'm missing

(01:08):
a ton.

Speaker 4 (01:08):
I get home and I start watching the second half
and I was.

Speaker 3 (01:10):
Like, oh, oh, we got a game, baby, and it
just took off from there.

Speaker 4 (01:15):
Dude.

Speaker 3 (01:15):
So yes, if you're going to get spooking a kola,
most likely, good luck.

Speaker 4 (01:20):
We'll see you in twenty twenty six. But you know,
you know, I was kind of similar.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
I'm visiting a friend of mine for a few days
before I go up to visit my family over Christmas,
and so you know, obviously want to spend time with them.
We were playing a little game last night and so
I kind of had the TV on muted that I
was glancing at and trying to pay attention to you
with the first half, and then he and his wife
went to bed, and so we were like, okay, I'll
sit here and just watch the rest of the game
by myself.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
And then it got really really good, and you.

Speaker 1 (01:45):
Know, we got overtime and you know a lot of
big plays, a lot of scoring, so it was it
was very fun. Fits did you survive facing Stafford and
or Puka anywhere? Or are you kind of burying your
team this morning given what happened last night.

Speaker 2 (02:01):
If you were facing them anywhere.

Speaker 5 (02:03):
Faced Puka in one league, have Puka in another league? Unfortunately,
the league where I faced him is a home money
league where I'm trying to repeat as champion, and so
I've gone from a pretty decided favorite to a pretty
decided underdog.

Speaker 6 (02:19):
He also had aj Barner going against me.

Speaker 5 (02:22):
Oh wasn't doing much of anything, and then had that touchdown,
So that was a sort of a double dagger. But
you knew Puka was going to have a good game.
Everyone had him ranked wide receiver one this week. But
you thought that maybe the Seattle defense would rise to
the occasion since he was primarily the only guy to
cover and you didn't have to worry maybe all that

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much against about Kannada, Mumpfield and Xavier Smith and company.
But like, where was the coverage on that overtime touchdown?
Like there was no one around Puka. That was just
a blown cover.

Speaker 1 (02:57):
When I was watching that for a half second, I
was like, that can't be Pooka, right, They wouldn't possibly
let him be so wide open.

Speaker 2 (03:04):
And somehow it was.

Speaker 5 (03:07):
Good on Seattle though, winning that game on a night
where Darnold didn't really have his a game and where
the defense didn't play especially well. But man, we got
a Kenneth Walker revival, which is pretty.

Speaker 6 (03:19):
Fun to see. And yeah, I mean just.

Speaker 5 (03:24):
Seattle did enough, and the resilience they showed in bouncing
back from a sixteen point deficit with half a quarter
to go. And I forget who said it, but one
of the Seattle players said the Rams were doing a
lot of smack talking when they had that sixteen point
lead halfway through the fourth quarter, and man, Seattle overcame it.
So hats off to the Seahawks.

Speaker 1 (03:46):
Outside of the fact that game was at home, or
I'll just say, even considering the fact that that game
was at home, I thought that was one of the
most impressive performances by any team this season. Seattle like
the resiliency, Like you said, fifth, I think it's spot
on for them to win that game, given the stakes
going on, how late we are in the season, the
fact that Darnold wasn't having one of those games where
he's seeing into the matrix, and the fact that. You know,
Stafford and pooka kind of were to overcome all that

(04:08):
and put themselves in position to control their destiny for
the one seed I thought was really awesome. By the way,
just to read the stat line, Stafford for Ardre fifty
seven yards and three touchdowns. Puoka twelve catches, two hundred
and twenty five yards and two touchdowns. You know you
mentioned Kenneth Walker one hundred yards in a touchdown, plus
he had the long catch early. You know JSN got

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the touchdown in overtime to kind of save it, not
that he was having a terrible day, but to give
us like a more JSN type stat line finished with
eight catches nine to six yards and a touchdown. Any
other quick thoughts on this game deeper? I mean, I
know there's a lot going on, but we have a
lot of games to get to so we don't have
to spend too much time on it.

Speaker 3 (04:43):
Yeah, I'll issue one quick PSA. I gave a lot
of pro Kobe Parkinson takes walking into the weeks, So
if you started in based off of my advice, I'm sorry.
I I's not talk and say like I didn't see
them cutting his route share and then he dropped a
bunch of big catches during.

Speaker 4 (04:59):
The the game.

Speaker 3 (05:00):
And then dude, the other thing is like, I mean,
come on, it feels like kind of like the dagger
in the heart of everybody that believed in Kenneth Walker
all year. And then like it's week sixteen and you're like, okay,
now now.

Speaker 4 (05:11):
We get the Kenneth Walker usage in the big blow
up game.

Speaker 3 (05:14):
All right, Well, he's probably on benches or teams that
are not in the playoffs.

Speaker 4 (05:18):
It you know it.

Speaker 3 (05:20):
It's good to see for the talent that we always
don has been there, but also.

Speaker 4 (05:24):
A little bit painful.

Speaker 6 (05:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (05:26):
By the way, Debro, I think anybody who is hurt
by the Parkinson advice by you, hopefully they have Puka
on all their teams because of you and therefore made.

Speaker 2 (05:35):
Up for it.

Speaker 1 (05:37):
Yeah, but also fits that Barner thing killed me. To you,
I was facing him in a league in the whole game,
I'm like.

Speaker 2 (05:41):
This is great. It's basically a zero.

Speaker 3 (05:44):
I don't have to worry about it. And then come on,
like you can midd on the move inside.

Speaker 5 (05:50):
Well, yeah, dee Bro, I think the process was fine
with Colby Parkinson. I mean they didn't have DeVante Adams,
so you figured, and as Parkinson had scored six touchdowns
in his previous six games, you figured he had the
enhanced target outlook.

Speaker 6 (06:03):
It just didn't work out.

Speaker 5 (06:04):
But I think the process was okay and ranking him
highly and starting him. If you started him, you shouldn't
feel bad about it, like it wasn't the wrong move.

Speaker 6 (06:13):
It just didn't work out. Thanks.

Speaker 1 (06:15):
Speaking of rankings, all of our weekly consensus rankings and
tiers can be found at fantasypros dot com slash rankings.
Like I said, we are under the semifinals here, so
be sure to check those consensus rankings before you finalize
your lineups here for the rest of the weekend. And
if you are facing you know, Puka or Stafford or
whoever you know, maybe look for some of the higher
upside options as denoted by some of the matchup information

(06:37):
on that page, because you probably need to swing for
the fences. Let's go to the first game on the
Saturday slate. We have Saturday games here, guys. First game up,
Eagles at Commanders. I kind of phrased his first question
just as is Bill back Jacory krossky Merritt had a
very strong week last week, but it appears that Chris Rodriguez,
given the practice.

Speaker 2 (06:55):
Stuff this week we'll be back on the field.

Speaker 1 (06:57):
So originally the question was kind of where you ranked
ging Jacory Krossky Merit this week? You can kind of
frame it to how are you ranking these guys against
each other? Are you willing to start either of them
here in the Fantasy semifinals fits I'll start with you
on this one, Bill, and also Chris Rodriguez, what are
you doing here?

Speaker 5 (07:12):
I'm taking the cowards way out and ranking them back
to back at forty two for Rodriguez and forty.

Speaker 6 (07:18):
Three for Jacorey krossky Merit.

Speaker 5 (07:20):
I just with one guy you could maybe lean into
that if the matchup was okay. And last week we
got a pretty good matchup for JCM going against the Giants,
who might just have the worst run defense in the league.
But this week against the Eagles, and I know the
Eagles run defense has been sort of hot and cold
and it largely depends on the health of Jalen Carter,

(07:43):
And yeah, but I just don't want to play either
guy when I think both are probably capped at about
twelve carries and Rodriguez doesn't catch passes, and Bill doesn't
really either and doesn't get the goal line work, so
it's just not really a matchup I want to lean into.

Speaker 1 (08:00):
In the ECR, Debro Rodriguez is RB forty three. Jakorey
Krasky Merit is RB forty seven. So they're very close
to each other. They are not the cowardly back to
back that Fits has given us, but they are in
a similar range.

Speaker 2 (08:13):
Of course, what do you think, Debro, Yeah, I mean.

Speaker 3 (08:15):
I've got Rodriguez at thirty seven and Bill at forty three.
I mean we're all kind of like sniffing in the
same area code here, like RB four's and it's like,
who gets the touchdown? I think Rodriguez coming back, practicing
and full. I think he takes the lead back roll
back over like with the red zone work, And to me,
it's you're kind of splitting the difference and saying, Okay,
who gets the touchdown? If either one of them get

(08:36):
the touchdown, I think, and what I'm saying in my
ranking is, I think if anybody gets a touchdown, it's
probably Rodriguez, but low end, like not desperation, but close
to a type of flex play. And if it's this point,
like just the matchup with the Eagles, like since week eleven,
like they've given up the eighth most rushing yards per game,
third highest explosive run rates, So like, the matchup is there.
But if the Eagles defense can do what they can

(08:57):
do versus the freaking Commanders, like both these guys could
just get games scripted out and it could be Jeremy
I mean Nichols out there a ton.

Speaker 1 (09:05):
Yeah, I was gonna bring up that the Eagles matchup
seems a little, babe, a little bit better than it
had been earlier in the year. But when you when
you're talking about the offense that you're talking about with
the Commanders right now, and you know now that this
potential for a bit of a split backfield that you
know best to get away from it if you can.
But maybe in a pinch, you know, leading round Riguez here,
given the consensus rankings where you guys have them, let's

(09:29):
go to another game here on Saturday. The other game
on Saturday, Packers at Bears, another division rivalry fits.

Speaker 2 (09:36):
Are you excited for this one?

Speaker 6 (09:39):
It's hard to get excited, man.

Speaker 5 (09:40):
I think the Packers season basically went up in smoke
with the injuries last week. You know Micah Parsons, Zach
Tom Luckily, Christian Watson might play in this one. Apparently
his injury wasn't that serious.

Speaker 6 (09:54):
But I'm always it's always fun to.

Speaker 5 (09:58):
Have a Packers Bears game me here behind enemy lines
in Illinois, and I have a lot of Bears fan friends,
so yeah, and it's a close spread. I think either
team could win this game, so it'll be a fun rematch.

Speaker 2 (10:12):
I've tried to.

Speaker 1 (10:13):
Hype you up as a friend, but yeah, I mean
the Parsons especially, it's just like so deflating to get
to this point in the season and then have that happen,
like given how strong the team had looked for most
of the year. So I mean, these two teams did
just face off in Week fourteen fits And the kind
of the way I phrased the question here and the
sheet is what kinds of differences do you expect in
the rematch? Obviously, the lack of Parsons will be a

(10:35):
very big deal for when the Bears are offenses on
the field. Is that kind of the first place your
mind goes when thinking about what will look different this
time around?

Speaker 2 (10:42):
Or does it go elsewhere?

Speaker 6 (10:43):
Not necessarily?

Speaker 5 (10:44):
I mean you would think that maybe the Bears could
be a little pass heavier without Micah Parsons, But like
they were pretty balanced in Bears Packers won, and maybe
the Bears are even run heavier this time because they
had more success I think with the run in that
game than they had with the pass. Especially late in
that game they had a long, like seventeen play drive

(11:06):
where they just drove it down the Packers throat running
the ball and you know, made it a really close
game at the end. Maybe they try to do that
again since they're shorthanded a wide receiver with Roma dune
S and Luther Burden both out, and I think Green
Bay basically runs back the same game plan they were balanced,
because you know, you can run a little bit on

(11:26):
the Bears, you can pass on the Bears, like this
is not really a defensive matchup, to be fear, Josh
Jacobs had twenty carries for eighty six yards and a
touchdown the first time around. I would expect maybe a
similar stat line this time. And you know, I think
Jordan Love can continue to spread the ball around and
have a decent day. I just it's hard to zero
in on any one or two Packers pass catchers in

(11:49):
this game, I gaf Watson is playing, you like the
big play potential, but you know, now you have to
be a little bit nervous about the risk of an
aggravation of his injury, and we were just kind of
reminded that he's been kind of frail throughout his career.

Speaker 1 (12:06):
Dee Brow and the Bears offense side of things. You know,
in this first matchup a couple of weeks ago, Swift
and Manong guys basically split carries. Thirteen attempts for Swift,
fourteen from an young guy, sixty three yards for Swift,
fifty seven for a young guy. So like a very
very similar output from the two of them in that matchup.
And you know, Luther Burden leading the team in targets
in that game with just six, though there's a lot

(12:27):
of spreading the ball around. You know, Colson Lovelin had
five to the second most on the team. Obviously, no
Burden or a Duneesay this week, what are your expectations
for this rematch that's just such a quick turnaround from
the last time these two teams faced.

Speaker 3 (12:40):
Yeah, I mean, right now, I'm kind of struggling with
what to do with Christian Watson. I do think he plays.
But the thing with the Packers wide receiver room, it's
comes down to route shares. And now you're talking about Watson,
if he does play in this game, what's his route
share look like.

Speaker 4 (12:53):
Because they're gonna have.

Speaker 3 (12:54):
Golden as well, Dobbs is gonna play, Jane Reid is back.

Speaker 4 (12:58):
So it's like, I mean, out.

Speaker 3 (13:00):
Of all these Packers wide receivers, I don't know what
to do with Watson, like ranking him right now, Like
right now, I've got him at wide receiver thirty seven,
just because even if he is unlimited routcher guy, like
he can get there on one or two deep targets
from Jordan Love. But like Jayden Reid I feel great
about in this game, Like I think he has a
fantastic matchup. Like the Bears, you look at they've been

(13:21):
bleeding out production in the slot. So I think if
like we're looking going back into the wayback machine and
looking at how this game played out last time, if
we're looking at any Packers pass catcher to have a
big game actually kind of leading in the direction of
Jayden Reid and not in the direction of Christian Watson,
just because it's all kind of shrouded about how healthy
he is, how much does he play and what does
that look like? But I mean, dude, since week ten,

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Chicago's given up the ninth most receiving yards and the
ninth highest PPR points to points per target two opposing
slot wide receiver. So feel good about Reid with Chicago's side.
I mean, it's nice that we get the consolidation of targets,
probably like with Chicago with Rom out Luther Burden out.
But again, how still, how do you feel like, Okay

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Parsons being out, that's going to affect the pass rush?
Secondary is still pretty good? And I know that like
a lot of past eas fences, it's a house of cards.
It's is a coverage is a pass rush? Is the
the I mean, is the coverage helped out by the
pass rush? And that can big key for the Packers.
Go ahead, FITZI.

Speaker 5 (14:20):
I was just gonna say, can I give you a
quick one question quiz?

Speaker 4 (14:24):
Yeah, j Reid.

Speaker 5 (14:26):
Forty career games for Jaden Reid, including playoff games. How
many games out of the forty do you think Jayden
Reed has had more than six targets? Oh?

Speaker 3 (14:35):
Geez?

Speaker 4 (14:36):
Out of forty four?

Speaker 6 (14:40):
Yeah, it's it's more than that. It's seven.

Speaker 4 (14:42):
Okay, it's we're living in the same area. We're still
double digits, man.

Speaker 5 (14:46):
So yeah, that's that's not a lot. That's my concern.
I mean, he is still only going to play in
two receiver sets, and you would think with the way
Jaden Reid operates, being the slot guy, kind of a
short area receiver, that he would have higher target counts,
and he just doesn't. That's my concern with him.

Speaker 1 (15:03):
I was just quickly looking fits at his game log
when he asked that question. I think the other point
to that too, is that six of those seven I believe.
I just look at we're twenty twenty three exactly dot
Com in the last two years. Yes, just very quickly
head to head, don't. We don't have time to do
like a deep dive. But they're ranked back to back
in ECR DJ Moore or Jaden Reid this week debro

(15:25):
Jane Reid fits.

Speaker 5 (15:27):
Oh, it's more for me, like a ten spot gap
between the two of kare I just.

Speaker 3 (15:33):
And Jordan love to play well in this game than
I do. Caleb Williams two. That's that's the difference for me.

Speaker 1 (15:39):
Okay, let's go to the Sunday early slate Buccaneers at Panthers.
How are you guys ranking, speaking of ranking receivers against
each other, how are you ranking the three Bucks receivers
plus Tetero McMillan one through four?

Speaker 2 (15:50):
In this game, Debro.

Speaker 3 (15:52):
Evans is the clear and not even close like top
guy here Igbuka's number two tests three for me Godwin,
and I'm going to put Godwin and honestly Jalen Cocher
in the same bucket behind everybody else because if you
look at I mean, do Mike Evins step back in,
he was the clear alpha immediately in his first game back,
and I don't think the changes. It's a good matchup

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at Buka's number two for me because again looking at
the target pecking order, because that was the first game.
The entire freaking season we have had Evans, Godwinning, Buka
all on the all in the field together and you
saw a play out man like a Buca was second
on the team in target. Cherry had a twenty three
point eight percent first read share and I put him
against are at least ahead of Tet because just the

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volatility of Bryce Hung which version of Bryce Young.

Speaker 4 (16:39):
Like it's a good matchup. Okay, we said that with the.

Speaker 3 (16:41):
Forty nine ers, and it's like, what version of Bryce
Hung do we get in this game? And that bleeds
over to tetromy millan. It's like, does he get two
targets and forty or fifty yards and you're hoping for
a touchdown? Where does McMillan get fed and he should
vault above a mecha Buca. It's a nice roll, man,
I don't know, because I don't know what version of

(17:02):
Bryce Young we get this week.

Speaker 1 (17:05):
It's interesting because consensus does go against I mean, obviously
Evans is the number one of these four in consensus Debro.
But the ECR has Tetero McMillan at wide receiver seventeen
and Agbuka down at wide receiver twenty nine. So it
doesn't just have McMillan higher than at Buka. It hasn't
consistent like higher by a wide margin fits at E
see it, are you more in line with ECR or

(17:26):
with Debra's laying down.

Speaker 5 (17:27):
I'm even more extreme on the split between McMillan and
Abuca than ECR. So I've got Evans wide receiver eleven,
Tetero McMillan wide receiver fifteen, A Mecca Buca wide receiver
thirty one, Godwin wide receiver thirty two, And so I mean,
it was just I think the second time last week

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since like Week five, that a Mecca Abuka has had
double digit PPR points, and he just barely got there,
like ten point four. But I don't necessarily think Mike
Evans d at Buka's value because the first three weeks
of the season and Buka had three pretty strong games.
I think he scored a couple of touchdowns that was

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while Evans was still healthy. Evans comes back, and Buka
has like his most efficient game in a yards per
target basis in like two months nine point one. So
maybe there's something about evans presence that does give Abuka
a lift. That's why I'm basically not dropping him from
where I would have had him if Mike Evans were
still out. But I just, I mean, I like McMillan

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a lot more because he's clearly the number one guy,
And even though the Panthers do try to hide Bryce
Young and with good reason, McMillan is still clearly even
though he really wasn't last week, but he's the number
one receiver, And I mean we just saw Kirk Cousins
dice up this Buccaneers secondary without Drake London, So I

(18:56):
mean I have to feel pretty bullish about Tedoroe McMillan
this week.

Speaker 3 (18:59):
Well, Cousins looks like a Hall of Famer every time
he plays the Bucks recently.

Speaker 6 (19:03):
Yeah, so and Thursday night, it's.

Speaker 4 (19:07):
Fair, that's fair.

Speaker 2 (19:08):
Fits. Quickly, what do you think about Coker?

Speaker 1 (19:10):
Because Deebra mentioned him too, I didn't include him in
the original question. Is he close to that back end
of the group.

Speaker 5 (19:15):
Yeah, I mean I like Cocher too. I've got him,
but I've got.

Speaker 6 (19:20):
Him down at like wide receiver forty nine.

Speaker 5 (19:23):
Maybe that's a little too low, but he's in like
the Romeo Dobbs, Darius Slayton, Kaishan booty neighborhood.

Speaker 1 (19:30):
Abuka and Godwin, for what it's worth in ECR are
also back to back fits. They're not exactly the spot
you have him. They're off by one, but Abuka's at
twenty nine and Godwin at thirty, so they are also,
you know, right there together the way you have him.
So Debro is the one who's really more going along
the lines to give against consensus here I fits is
closer to what is there.

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Speaker 2 (21:09):
Next game here, guys.

Speaker 1 (21:11):
Bills at Brown's Quinn Shawn Judkins is still getting great volume,
but he has been under two yards per carry each
of the last two weeks. He now faces a bad
Bills run defense, and his consensus ranking is RB eighteen.
That's in half PPR scoring. Is that ranking of RB
eighteen too high, too low or just right fits?

Speaker 6 (21:31):
I think it's too high.

Speaker 5 (21:33):
Yes, the Bills have a bad run defense, but these
last two weeks where he's been under two yards per carry.
It's been what the Titans and the Bears. Those are
not great run defenses either. And this isn't just a
two week slump for Quinn Shawn Judkins. Since Week six,
Judkins has averaged fifty point nine rushing yards a game
three point one yards per carry. And right now, the

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Browns offensive line has just really beaten up, so Cleveland
might not be able to take advantage of this good matchup.
Center Ethan Poseik out.

Speaker 6 (22:04):
For the season. I think he tore his achilles tackle.

Speaker 5 (22:06):
Jack Conklin concussion guards Wyat Teller and Zach Zinter both questionable.
I think Tevin Jenkins is questionable too. It's just a
mess with the Browns offensive line, so I.

Speaker 6 (22:18):
Don't know how.

Speaker 5 (22:19):
Well they're going to be able to run the ball,
even against a shaky run defense.

Speaker 1 (22:24):
With the volume he's getting debro, it feels hard to
bury him in the rankings. But yeah, to fits his point,
the slump is prolonged. It's like the last two weeks
have almost kind of come to a head in terms
of the lack of efficiency, But it has been a
long time and in that stretch that fits mentioned, since
week six, he's only scored touchdowns in two of those games.
Now he has five touchdowns because he had three and

(22:45):
two respectively in those two games. But it's only happened
in the two games where it's happened. The other games
it's just been zero zero, zero zero. With this lack
of efficiency, it's really just been volume only.

Speaker 3 (22:56):
Yeah, I mean I don't disagree with anything fits fits.
Where do you have him ranked this week?

Speaker 4 (23:00):
Because it's like twenty one Okay, So that's exactly.

Speaker 3 (23:03):
We're in line, we're hand holding, That's exactly where I'm at,
Like I just because there's so many matchups and crappy
backfields and stuff like that. Like it's like I can
I don't feel good about Judkins this week, but it's
like to the point of everybody here, I can only
push him so far down the rankings because of what
running back looks like this week. So I agree with
all the points, like I think he's too high in ECR,

(23:26):
but again, like how far could you push him down?
The matchup is good, but can he take advantage of
it with the offensive line as well as Shudor facing
this pass defense? Are they going to move the ball consistently?
Are they going to get into the red zone. Heck,
multiple times, I'm not going to, like, you know, just
totally shade him and say, are they going to get
in there at all? Like I think they probably you know,
have a red zone trip or two. But does Judkins

(23:49):
walk away with a touchdown or is it just Field
Gold City? So like it's tough, man, I think just
running back in general is just really tough in fantasy
this week.

Speaker 1 (23:57):
One of the things that we talked about earlier in
the week with ericson to myself is on Judkins specifically
in this matchup. The Bills always put a real strong
emphasis on stopping the tight end and with how much
the Browns have been throwing to Harold Fan and if
that is taken away at all by Buffalo, then maybe
an opportunity for more checkdowns to Judkins just because what

(24:19):
else is shodo We're going to be able to do
in this game. I don't know, it's just soathing we
talked about a little. Does that feel like it rings
like possibly true for you guys at all or no?

Speaker 3 (24:29):
I mean, Judkins is just not a prolific pass catcher,
like I would say, like the injuries in the backfield,
you know, Samson and drolling forward and what have you like,
all the injuries and stuff like in theory. Yes, but
I just one, I don't know if Sugar is.

Speaker 4 (24:44):
Gonna check down the ball too much.

Speaker 3 (24:45):
And two it's not like you know his calling card
is as a pass catcher either.

Speaker 2 (24:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (24:52):
By the way, when I made this show sheet, which
is a little earlier in the week than usual, he
was RB eighteen. Rather than moving down closer to you guys,
he moved up. He's actually RB seventeen right now, So hey,
gone in the other direction.

Speaker 2 (25:05):
In consensus, All right, let's go to.

Speaker 1 (25:08):
The next game here, Chargers at Cowboys, second highest game
total of the week, up at fifty points. Give me
one player each that you most strongly disagree with consensus
on Dee Bra, I'll start with you.

Speaker 3 (25:20):
I'm just going to go back to the Dallas Goddard.
Well here, tight ends versus the Chargers. Man like Jake
Ferguson is getting the Dallas Goddard treatment of that week.
He's right now, or at least when I was putting
this together, he was tight end sixteen in ECR. It's
not a good matchup for the outside of wide receivers.
It's not a good matchup for them or George Pickens

(25:41):
coverage wise, I think it's a good, really good bounce
back spot for Jake Ferguson.

Speaker 4 (25:45):
I have him at tight.

Speaker 3 (25:46):
End ten for the week, and since Week ten, the
Bolts have given out the fifth most yards per target
and the thirteenth most Fantasy points per game to opposing
tight ends. Jake Ferguson's ranking in ECR is wrong.

Speaker 1 (25:58):
He is sixteen. Yeah, ANYCR, that's wrong, Fitz. What do
you think about your boy, Jake Ferguson.

Speaker 6 (26:06):
I am.

Speaker 5 (26:08):
I think I'm a little above consensus on him. Yeah,
I mean it's it's probably an easier matchup for Ferguson
than it is for some of the other guys, Like
the Chargers are a really hard team to pass on. Actually,
I'm right in line with him with DCR as it
turns out, wide fifteen.

Speaker 1 (26:28):
Basically in line, but yeah, a spot ahead. Who's the
player that you are disagreeing with fits this week?

Speaker 5 (26:33):
Oh it's justin Herbert. I'm six spots below consensus.

Speaker 4 (26:38):
Where do you have him at, FITZI.

Speaker 5 (26:40):
I've got him down in quarterback two range. I have
him at QB seventeen.

Speaker 2 (26:49):
He's right there.

Speaker 4 (26:51):
Yeah, I agree with you.

Speaker 6 (26:53):
Eleven is just really hard to justify that.

Speaker 5 (26:57):
I know the matchup against Dallas is appealing, and that's
what people are looking at when they're ranking him as
a QB one, But Justin Herbert's offensive line is pretty
much incapable of protecting him. It's like five traffic cones
in front of Justin Herbert right now, and the Chargers
are starting to become run heavier as a result. So
in the five games the Chargers have played since Joe

(27:20):
Alt went uninjured, reserve Justin Herbert has averaged one hundred
and sixty point two passing yards and one touchdown pass
a game, and he hasn't thrown for more than two
hundred and twenty yards in any game over that stretch.
I just I don't know if the ceiling is very
high for Herbert, even in a favorable matchup.

Speaker 1 (27:36):
So the names like directly behind him in consensus are Stroud, Love,
Dart Mayfield, Trevor, Lawrence, Stafford was behind him, obviously, that'll
be wrong, Schuck, Caleb, those first several names fits, they're
all ahead of him.

Speaker 5 (27:51):
Yeah, I mean I had Stafford ranks higher than him.
I've got c j Stroud and Baker Mayfield and Jordan
Love ahead of him. I've got Tyler Shuck one spot
ahead of Justin Herbert.

Speaker 3 (28:05):
I have Jjmsmurkey ahead of him too.

Speaker 2 (28:07):
So okay, yeah, yeah, Mcarthy's at twentieth inc.

Speaker 6 (28:10):
Dorothy one spot behind.

Speaker 5 (28:12):
I can't show that much disrespect to Justin Herbert.

Speaker 1 (28:15):
Now, do you guys both have Lawrence ahead of Herbert
coming off in his amazing game?

Speaker 3 (28:20):
No, no, no, I don't want to have Caleb right
behind him. So you know that's kind of where I'm at.

Speaker 1 (28:25):
Okay, Yeah, Lawren's obviously in Denver, so not an easy
spot for him, and then Caleb. We already talked about
a bit that that Packers game. Let's go to Jets
at Saints, and I want to ask with Devin Neil out,
how are you guys approaching the Saints backfield. The player
that Ericson pointed to earlier in the week was Orodric Estime.

(28:46):
He and I were big fans of Estimate last year,
and you know, like when he came out of the
draft into the NFL and kept holding on hope and
then they kind of giving up. And he's got some
excitement for him now is Estimate the direction you're going
fits is anybody else in this backfield?

Speaker 2 (29:01):
What are you doing here with Noneil.

Speaker 5 (29:02):
Well, there is someone else. It's Debro and my guy
Evan Hall, who I asked.

Speaker 1 (29:09):
You first because I knew Debra was going to go there,
so I was like, let's see if it's is going
the same way or not.

Speaker 5 (29:14):
Yeah, And so right now I do have Estimate or
ranked higher. I've got Estimate thirty four and Hall forty seven.
Like you would think that this would be a pretty
clear cut division of labor because Estima sort of has
this early down skill set, didn't catch a lot of
passes when he was in college at Notre Dame. Hall

(29:37):
had like fifty six catches in his final year at Northwestern.
He does have a third down skill set. Estima is
the early down thumper between the tackles. Guy Hall is
the third down back. But it didn't really work.

Speaker 6 (29:50):
Out that way.

Speaker 5 (29:50):
Last week after they left, Hall actually had one more
carry than Estimate had.

Speaker 6 (29:56):
It was only four to three.

Speaker 5 (29:58):
Hal didn't have any targets and Estimate had three catches
for thirty nine yards, So that was a little confounding.
I don't know what we're going to see and now
I'm really fascinated to see it. But I do want
to note it is exactly ten years since Tim high
Tower went berserk for this in the Fantasy Playoffs, where

(30:20):
you might not remember this, you were only like nine.

Speaker 6 (30:22):
At the time.

Speaker 5 (30:22):
I remember high Tower in like the final three games
the Fantasy Playoffs, he had over three hundred yards from
scrimmage and three touchdowns and carried a lot of people
to the Fantasy Playoffs. And this was a guy who,
like the Saints, had cut and picked back up like
two times during the season, re signed him in November,
and all of a sudden he winds up being kind

(30:43):
of a league winner for people at the end. So
could we see something like that with Odric Estimate or
Evan Hall.

Speaker 1 (30:50):
I do remember that I was twenty three at the time,
not nine. Pick you very much too, gaging me a bit.

Speaker 2 (30:57):
I do remember Tim high Tower.

Speaker 1 (31:00):
Yeah, I I think I think it's a good point
on Hull, like what it looked like in the game
after Neil went out. I'll deeve roll at you go first.
I mean, obviously you're you had we were a big
Hull guy in the draft. I assume that's the direction
you're going here.

Speaker 3 (31:16):
Uh, I mean, I'm actually just because the usage leaning
in the direction of estimate, Like, I'm pretty much in
line with FITZI right now, Like I've got.

Speaker 2 (31:24):
So you're also a coward.

Speaker 4 (31:25):
I am not a coward. I just I'm going with
the usage.

Speaker 2 (31:28):
Man, like you gotta have conviction in your guy Debro,
I like.

Speaker 4 (31:31):
Dude, I I love Evan Hole.

Speaker 3 (31:33):
I think like he's been disrespected and should get the opportunity.
But that's not what we saw last week, and it
was to Fitti's point, Addrick estimated, Yeah, he had the
pass down role, like he played fifty two percent of
the snaps after in the second half of last week
he had a forty six percent routch here and Evan
Hole was the goal line back. He got the two
red zone carries last week.

Speaker 4 (31:52):
So it's like, weird, we're living in the upside down.
The guy that I thought was gonna be the passing.

Speaker 3 (31:57):
Down back was not, and the guy that I thought
it should be the zone back was not. So I mean,
for me, it's just going with the volume, and I mean,
could we be all wrong about this? And Evan Hall
leads the backfield this week? I would love to see that,
but considering the usage last week, I do shade in
the direction of Estime, And I mean with this matchup,

(32:17):
man like, he could easily be an RB two this week.
If he gets twelve to fifteen touches. They could treat
Estima as the workhorse. We just don't know just looking
at the usage last week. So like, depending on if
you have like estimate and you're looking at him versus
like other guys and split backfields like even like a

(32:37):
Tony Pollard or Kyle Manongai and stuff, and you need
absolute upside. I mean, I'm probably gonna tell you to
start estimate because there is a runout in this where
he gets fifteen to seventeen touches, and in this matchup
he scores a touchdown. He's an RB two this week.
So honestly, as gross as it is to say, in
week sixteen of the year twenty twenty twenty five, Addrick

(32:59):
estimay might be an RB two in fantasy like that's
it's wild.

Speaker 5 (33:04):
You might have missed that Tony Pollard went into the
phone booth and came out as Earl Campbell.

Speaker 4 (33:12):
He took the super hero serum.

Speaker 5 (33:16):
Ericson mentioned this yesterday. Tony Pollard has a quarter million
dollars incentive if he gets to eleven hundred rushing yards
and he only needs like two hundred and it's like
two hundred and fifty seven yards to do it. In
his last three games, and man, he has looked like
a man on a mission the light. He's averaging almost
seven yards of carry over the last two weeks after
being such a zilch earlier in the season.

Speaker 4 (33:36):
That's fair.

Speaker 2 (33:37):
That's fair for what it's worth.

Speaker 1 (33:38):
On the rankings estimate RB thirty seven in ECR Evan
Hall RB fifty six, So way it's.

Speaker 2 (33:46):
Too low down there. I knew. I knew you guys,
especially Deebro.

Speaker 5 (33:51):
Remember excitedly like Deebro and I were excitedly texting each
other after Evan Hall ran like a four to four
something at the combine.

Speaker 4 (33:58):
We were all giddy, dude, And I still like the
skill set.

Speaker 3 (34:01):
I think the kid can play, just hadn't worked out.

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app Next game here, guys vikings at Giant. Back to
back top ten quarterback weeks for JJ McCarthy, and yet
Justin Jefferson has a combined four catches for thirty three
yards across those two games. Is this the week those

(34:47):
two finally get on the same page, Debro.

Speaker 3 (34:50):
Yes and context for everybody, he could have easily and
you can argue you should have had two touchdowns last week.
One of them got called back because of an illegal formation,
another one went straight through his hands. So this easily
could have turned out very differently for Justin Jefferson last week.
So targets are there. I've got Justin Jefferson as wide

(35:10):
receiver sixteen. At this point, we're going down with the Titanic.
If this ain't the week, then there is no week
that is the week. So I'm riding it back with
Justin Jefferson McCarthy's playing better and for everybody in their
narratives like, oh, McCarthy only looks good because he's playing
bad pass defenses. Have you seen the Giants' pass defense?
What do you think they are? So if McCarthy's only

(35:33):
good versus bad pass defenses, let's saddle up and ride
again this week, Like, it's still okay. If we want
to go with the narrative it still holds true this week,
then sorry?

Speaker 1 (35:44):
Did you say, where are you ranking Jefferson wide receiver
sixteen sixteen? Okay, he's eighteen in ECR fits.

Speaker 5 (35:52):
I'm at twenty one. I am probably gonna have to
come up on him a little bit. But I think
the real key question here, worm is what age Jefferson
breakout game help anyone at this point?

Speaker 4 (36:03):
Like?

Speaker 5 (36:04):
Are there any Justin Jefferson stakeholders still alive in the playoffs?

Speaker 1 (36:08):
I actually am in a league that we are, the
MFL league that where the three of us are in.

Speaker 2 (36:13):
I have alive and I have Justin Jefferson.

Speaker 3 (36:15):
Somehow, you realize this is the Kenneth Walker corolary right,
like the reason but I had the breakout game, we
get the Justin Jefferson game. All in one week for
everybody that it's out of the playoffs to say, see,
I told you.

Speaker 1 (36:28):
The reason I have a live in that league, by
the way, is because I only have one healthy quarterback
left and it is super flex.

Speaker 2 (36:33):
But uh it's it was Trevor Lawrence.

Speaker 1 (36:35):
So he like single handedly took me past last week,
and I'm sure he's gonna let me down this week,
even when Jefferson finally takes a step forward.

Speaker 6 (36:43):
So uh yeah, yeah, it's just and it's funny.

Speaker 5 (36:47):
I'm just like watching Justin Jefferson and how you know
he lets that ball go? Is there something about the
way JJ McCarthy throws. Does he not throw a very
catchable ball. I'm just like, I'm running out of it
excuses to make for Justin Jefferson at this point. It's
just it's frustrating to watch him not show up, and

(37:10):
then they're the games, even when JJ McCarthy is playing
reasonably well and it's Jordan Addison and Jalen Naylor having
the big games.

Speaker 1 (37:17):
It's just if I was just what if I was
just looking at the box score, not watching the games,
I would be like, I wonder if he's like hiding,
like you know, an injury or something that we'll hear about,
but it doesn't really look like that, Like it just
they just look not on the same page. Like actually
watching the games, he seems like justin Jefferson, he's just
not catching the ball or and then the times that

(37:37):
he is open are the times that JJ overthrows him.
And it's just it's just really odd.

Speaker 6 (37:41):
Just it is.

Speaker 5 (37:43):
Yeah, it's not like Jefferson has goten a plus quarterbacking
throughout his career, and yet coming into this season he
was averaging like he had a career average of something
like two point two eight yards per route run, which
even like was way better than Jamar Chase and CD Lamb. Like,
the guy is insanely good, and it's just like not

(38:05):
falling into place this year, and it's so frustrated.

Speaker 1 (38:07):
I mean, coming into this season, I think there's a
pretty strong argument that he was I mean, I don't
think many people wouldsagree if you said he was one
of the three best non quarterbacks in the entire league.
And then we're getting this even when JJ McCarthy is
producing these last couple of weeks.

Speaker 2 (38:21):
So we'll see what happens this week.

Speaker 1 (38:23):
I am going back to the well in the league
where I'm so alive with him, I will certainly be
starting him, So we'll see if that ends up finally.

Speaker 2 (38:30):
Panning out or not.

Speaker 1 (38:31):
Let's go to Chiefs at Titans. Obviously, like you know,
the biggest story of the week, Patrick Mahomes tearing his
ACL obviously out for the season. Chiefs have already been
eliminated from the playoffs. Question marks about what it'll look
like started next season for Mahomes, but for right now,
for you know, managers who have relied on some of

(38:52):
these Chiefs players to get them to this point in
the season, how significantly are you downgrading those players in
your rankings for their first game without Mahomes. It's really
like Rice and Kelsey are the big two, and I
guess you could maybe say, like Kareem Hunt if you
were you know, Needia at running back some of those
other receivers, like I think we likely we're not going
to be looking to anyway, even with Mahomes. So those

(39:14):
are kind of the two big ones. Although if you
want to hit on one of those other names, please
definitely feel free. Fits I'll start with you, how are.

Speaker 2 (39:20):
You downgrading this offense in general without Mahomes.

Speaker 5 (39:23):
Well as of now, I'm actually I've moved Travis Kelcey
up because I'm not ranking Rashi Rice yet.

Speaker 6 (39:30):
Like he didn't come back to practice yet.

Speaker 5 (39:32):
He's still in the concussion protocol right, so I don't
know what his chances of playing are this week. But
typically the guys who have sustained a concussion one Sunday
usually don't play the next Sunday if they've had a concussion.
Not out of the question that he could, but more
often than not, guys have sat in the following week.
So I've got Kelsey at tight end four. I think

(39:55):
Gardner Minshew is going to lean on him pretty heavily.
And Gardner Minshew is at least competent. We've seen that.
I don't want to overstate how good Gardner Minshew is,
but he's a competent distributor of the football. I don't
think you like totally dock the pass catchers who have
to play with Gardner Minshew.

Speaker 6 (40:13):
And I've got Xavier Worthy.

Speaker 5 (40:15):
Oh and by the way, Taekwon Thornton I think has
a concussion too, so it might kind of consolidate targets
with Kelsey and Xavier Worthy. I've still only got Worthy
ranked wide receiver forty two. I might have to move
him up a little bit.

Speaker 1 (40:27):
And yeah, if if Rice doesn't play, I feel like
Worthy has to be higher than that, just because there's
nobody else right right.

Speaker 6 (40:35):
Right, and I've I've there's Juju. That's uh, that's.

Speaker 2 (40:41):
About everybody else that I care about. I should say yeah.

Speaker 5 (40:44):
And then even the running backs are kind of confusing
here because we saw a little spike and usage for
Isaiah Pacheco last week. Right now, I've got Hunt like
running back thirty five and Pacheco running back thirty seven,
so we like the matchup against the Titans.

Speaker 6 (40:56):
It's just hard to tell how the work is going
to be divided.

Speaker 2 (41:00):
Well quickly fits. Where are you ranking Minshew himself?

Speaker 1 (41:04):
I've got him because I had got him Mahomes in
a super flex like I had to pick up Minshew.
There's nobody else available, and I'm sure other people are
in that same boat where they picked him up, so
I don't really have a choice. I'm starting him, but like,
what are your expectations for Minshew like himself? In terms
of fantasy production?

Speaker 5 (41:19):
I have him quarterback twenty five item sandwiched between Aaron Rodgers,
one spot behind Rodgers and one spot ahead of Sam Darnold,
who's matchup I did not care for.

Speaker 1 (41:30):
Yeah, Deeber, what do you think about this offense in general?

Speaker 3 (41:34):
So I've Minshe at quarterback twenty six, I've got him behind,
I've got him one actually one spot ahead of old
Man Rivers. So the way that I'm projecting this offense
this week, I'm with Fitzie like I'm not dropping Travis Kelcey.
I'm ranking this right now as of recording this as
Rashi Rice is going to be out and looking at that.

(41:55):
And the reason I want to bring this up first
is that I think that I've got examer worthy wide
receiver nineteen, and I want to explain that very quickly.
I think with Rice out, we're going to see Xavier
Worthy go back into the role that everybody's salivated over
in the offseason, and that is the Rashi Rice role.
Like we've already seen him operate in that role with
Rashid Rice out, so I think he gets right back

(42:17):
in that role. The fact that there are other injuries
around it, so this is probably the target try like
Minshew's gonna lean heavily Unworthy and Travis Kelce this week.
I look, I think Xavier Worthy might be on waiver
wires in some leagues, and some people aren't going to
make the connection of if Rashi Rice is out Worthy
going back into the role we saw him operate last

(42:38):
year to close the season and being as a strong
wide receiver too, and I'm like, bro, like pick him up,
start him like, I think he is a wide receiver
too this week and the matchup is fantastic and just
on the Chiefs backfield role fast. I don't want to
start are either one of those guys. And I think
the one thing that's kind of gone under the radar
is with Jeffrey Simmons back sweat back. This rundy has

(43:00):
gotten really good. Since Week eleven, Tennessee has allowed the
six fewest rushing arts per game and the fourth lowest
explosive run rate. I don't want to start any casey
backs period.

Speaker 1 (43:11):
Fitz, you said that you like might have to move
up Worthy a bit obviously, maybe maybe not all the
way up to what why does he were?

Speaker 2 (43:16):
Nineteen? What do you think about Devross in.

Speaker 5 (43:18):
That I'm moving him up as we speak to wide
receiver thirty six? Okay, and I might not be done
moving him up.

Speaker 1 (43:26):
Yeah, yeah, I mean if Rice is out, I think
it's really it's a really good good case.

Speaker 5 (43:31):
I mean that's exactly it. Like Xavier Worthy cooked down
the stretch last year. He was fantastic and he did
it basically in that Rashi Rice role, And you know,
I thought I thought he'd be able to do it
in a more conventional outside receiver role this year, and
it hasn't really happened. But going back to that, and
I know it's with Gardner Minshew, not Patrick Mahomes, but still.

Speaker 3 (43:53):
But still, if you're going to make things easier for
Minshew Minshew, easy design targets, let him be your your
yourning through the air, yep.

Speaker 1 (44:02):
I think I could be convinced to get him up
into like the mid twenties. I think inside the top twenty.
I will be just wrong if that happens, because I
don't think I could get all right there.

Speaker 3 (44:11):
But to me, it's it's also the state of wide
receiver this week, like all these wide receiver twos, Like
do I feel better about Jacobe Myers maybe going up
against Patrick's certain No? Do I feel better about Jalen
Wattle going up against DJ Turner. No, do I feel
better about Zay Flowers going up against freaking Christian Gonzales?

Speaker 1 (44:27):
No?

Speaker 4 (44:29):
Okay, well, then wheels up are worthy.

Speaker 1 (44:33):
Let's go to the next game here, Bengals at Dolphins.
The Bengals just got shut out at home by and
improved but still flawed Raven's defense. So what is your
concern level for this offense for fantasy managers this next
week following up the bagel against the Dolphins, Debra not
a ton.

Speaker 3 (44:50):
I mean, like I understand I could go down like
the Joe Burrow and how motivated and all that kind
of stuff. For like, I'm not like, if they're out there,
they're gonna give it their all and they're gonna play well.

Speaker 4 (45:00):
I think, man, I think, I like, if anything, you
can create.

Speaker 3 (45:02):
A better bounce back narrative for this offense, like Jamar
Chase is going to get a crapt ton of targets.
I don't know if we see T Higgins play that
right now, like he's still in concussion protocol, and right
now at this point, if you're still in concussion protocol,
he went back in concussion protocol, Like, I more question,
not if we see T Higgins this week, but do

(45:22):
we see him the rest of the season, Like this
could be a Cedric Tillman situation where he deals with
concussion symptoms and they hold him out because the Bengals,
I mean, what are they playing for at this point? Man?
So I think you kind of know where the ball
is going, you know, like Jamar Chase, You're starting him,
He's a top three wide receiver for the week. Burrow
could still put up points. Yes, the Dolphins defense is improved,

(45:43):
but if Burrow is playing like Burrow, then okay, wheels
up and Chase Brown's going to get a crapt ton
of targets man Like so as operating as if t
Higgins is out, he might be kind of their de
facto wide receiver two in this offense because Kaseki's not
going to have a full time route chare and Adrey
Yoshavas does not earn targets at a high rate.

Speaker 2 (46:01):
What do you think fits?

Speaker 5 (46:03):
Yeah, I'm not that concerned because the Bengals offense functioned
pretty well against the Ravens on Thanksgiving Night in Burrow's
first game back, and Burrow had four touchdown passes. The
next week against the Bills, so I think last week
was probably just a hiccup. I'm ranking the Bengals pretty normally,
but right now I've got Burrow at quarterback four, and

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that's with the anticipation that T.

Speaker 6 (46:26):
Higgins is going to come back.

Speaker 5 (46:27):
But as Debro points out, I don't think we can
safely conclude that, and if T. Higgins isn't back, I
might drop Burrow maybe from quarterback four to as far
down as quarterback eight. I would have a tough debate
at that point. I think between Joe Burrow and Jacoby
Brissett's he was my current quarterback eight.

Speaker 1 (46:49):
Do you guys expect But when I put the sheet together,
it was before the news of.

Speaker 2 (46:54):
Tua getting benched. Do you guys expect the Dolphins offense
to push them a little better with good yours?

Speaker 1 (46:59):
Or are like, you know, is there a chance that
this the Bengals don't need to throw a ton because
even with them struggling, there's still a lot better than
the Dolphins that are yours?

Speaker 3 (47:08):
Debro, I've seen Quinn yours play football.

Speaker 4 (47:11):
No, I don't.

Speaker 3 (47:12):
I don't. I think this is honestly going to be
a very similar kind of setup to what they were
doing with Tua. They're just gonna ask quin Yours play
to play game manager, and that's basically all quin Yours
did in his final year at Texas. He's gonna like
Pepper the underneath with targets and I think the over unders,
Like do you see more than twenty five passing attempts

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for quin Yours? Probably not so a lot of running
the ball, and you know, I'm concerned for everybody in
that passing attack, like Wattle versus Turner. You know what
am I doing with Darren Waller? But I don't have
a lot of faith in quin yours.

Speaker 2 (47:44):
D you see similarly fits.

Speaker 5 (47:47):
The only thing about Quinn Yours is like he can
look pretty decent if he's got time to throw, and
who in the Bengals is going to put pressure on him.
That's the one thing that gives me about the Miami
offense looking somewhat the same, because I I don't think
Quinn Yours is good, But if he has a clean pocket,

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maybe this Dolphins offense looks okay and he can at
least float the fantasy value of the guys we care about,
mainly Jalen Waddle and Darren Waller.

Speaker 3 (48:15):
You want me to hit you with a crazy stat here,
FITZI all right, go for it. Since week eleven, do
you want to know where the Cincinnati Bengals actually rank
and pressure rate?

Speaker 6 (48:26):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (48:26):
Where eighth? Surprisingly eighth? Yes, I know.

Speaker 3 (48:31):
I was like, I was actually shocked to see that.
When I was going through the primer, I was like, oh,
is this real?

Speaker 4 (48:38):
Okay?

Speaker 6 (48:38):
They are they dialing up more blitzes? Is that?

Speaker 3 (48:42):
It's a great question. I had to go back through
the numbers, but yeah, I was surprised to see that.
Right ahead of the Dallas.

Speaker 1 (48:47):
Cowboys in this game against the Ravens, Miles Murphy had
some some good moves. I thought, like, there's some there
are some names that I was like, okay, it was
like in a decent ish pass rush. Surprised at times,
even without Hendrickson, I wasn't paying close attention to if
they were, you know, blitzing more or anything fits to
that point.

Speaker 2 (49:03):
But all right.

Speaker 1 (49:05):
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two very similar questions coming for back to back games.
Here for game number ten Falcons that Cardinals Kyle Pitts
is coming off the best Fantasy day of any tight

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end this season.

Speaker 2 (49:48):
What do you expect from him this week? Debro?

Speaker 3 (49:52):
Similar not not similar fireworks Like I don't think he's
going to go for a Hondo and three tuddies or
anything like that. But I mean I've got him at
tight end three. I don't think Drake London probably plays
this week. I think he's a week away from being
back in the lineup in Arizona is just terrible versus
tight ends, man like this year six most yards per
target all out, eighth, most Fantasy points per game.

Speaker 4 (50:10):
So Kyle Pitts. We've We've arrived.

Speaker 3 (50:14):
I mean, we've arrived Kyle Pitts season Top five tight end.

Speaker 4 (50:17):
It just took us how many years in head coaches
and ocs and what have you.

Speaker 1 (50:23):
I want to be excited about Kyle Pitts, But every
time I feel like, oh, I'm gonna believe in him
in the Fantasy Playoffs, I feel like I should be
taking a polaroid picture like in Memento and writing do
not believe his lies? Like I just feel like I
cannot bring myself to fully fully trust Kyle Pitts because
we talked, so.

Speaker 4 (50:44):
You're just afraid of getting hurt. We all understand that
this is a safe space man we have.

Speaker 1 (50:48):
By the way, Deever, I was expecting a little more
credit for referencing a movie from twenty five years ago.

Speaker 4 (50:53):
That is, okay, kudos, kudos. I'll pull one out for you.
It's your best movie take I've ever heard.

Speaker 1 (51:00):
I appreciate it. But yeah, I mean, fits, what are
your expectations here? I mean, obviously I think you have
to rank him highly, but it's your real, truthful, honest expectations.

Speaker 2 (51:10):
How do you feel about Pitts this week?

Speaker 5 (51:11):
The funny thing is I've got him tight end three.
And that is with me currently ranking Drake London as
if he's going to come back, because I think there's
a still a chance he does. I mean, he's been
practicing just limited. We haven't gotten him to full yet,
so maybe it's not this week. But the funny thing is,
I think I'm going to have him tight end three
regardless of whether London comes back. But if there's no London,

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I would have him at tight end three, where I'm
thinking about whether I should have him ahead of George
Kittle at tight end two, and if London is back,
I'm wondering whether I should have him below Travis Kelcey
at tight end four. And so like Pitts is now
at three really good games in a row because before
the one hundred and sixty six yard three touchdown an

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outburst against the Buccaneers, catches for eighty two yards against
the Jets, six catches for ninety yards against the Seahawks,
but all of those games it's Drake London out. And
before the injury, Drake London had rattled off three straight
one hundred yard games and for the season ten point
four targets and six point seven catches a game, so

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it would definitely affect Kyle Pitts's target share, even though
it's a pretty consolidated target tree in Atlanta with basically
just you know, London and Pits and whatever.

Speaker 6 (52:29):
A few dump offs to Bijon and then it's down
to David Sills.

Speaker 5 (52:32):
So yeah, I still think Pitts is an attractive play
regardless of whether London comes back this week.

Speaker 1 (52:41):
Next game Jags at Broncos. Pretty much the same question here.
Trevor Lawrence is coming off the best fantasy day of
any quarterback this season. What do you expect from him
this week?

Speaker 5 (52:50):
Fits I've got him ranked quarterback twenty. I'm just it's
a tough matchup on the road against the Broncos. But
if Trevor Lawrence cooks in this game, we should probably
take it as a sign that he has permanently turned
the corner.

Speaker 1 (53:05):
It has looked really good as of late at you know,
Jacobe Myers has made a real difference obviously, you know,
kind of getting further into the season and getting more
familiarity with you know, Liam Collins system.

Speaker 2 (53:17):
It looks good. It's a tough matchup this week.

Speaker 1 (53:20):
Let me ask you just quickly fits before I toss
the t bro in Dynasty or even just thinking about
how we're gonna be ranking him at the start of
next season. Where do you Where do you stand on
Lawrence as of right now, like thinking long term or
are you still hesitant that this might just be a
bit of a hot streak.

Speaker 6 (53:37):
I'm still a little hesitant.

Speaker 5 (53:40):
I'm probably like I've still got him ranked as sort
of a mid range quarterback two in Dynasty, but I
might have to start thinking about I don't know, maybe
moving him head of an older guy like dak Or
Mayfield or you know, And right now I've got him
behind cam Ward because I just I can at least
envision of a bright future for him. And it's been

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so long for Trevor Lawrence. Like guys are not supposed
to break out at this late stage of their career,
you know. I mean, he's he's now in his prime
and hadn't really become the guy we had hoped he
would be until this year. But I don't know, I'm
gonna have to think about him a lot and assess

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where I am with him in Dynasty.

Speaker 1 (54:25):
Debro Where you're at on Lawrence for this week? Coming
off of just the you know, the career best game
and then also a little bit thinking into the future.

Speaker 3 (54:32):
Yeah, I was looking at where I have him in Dynasty,
and I just bumped him up a few spots, like
I think somewhere in the mid to high end to
QB two range. But I think it's a conversation of
him versus like party In Mayfield and all these other
kind of guys are going to be a year older
and stuff.

Speaker 4 (54:47):
This week.

Speaker 3 (54:48):
I've got him at QB sixteen, so pretty much in
the same area code as fits. I think Trevor Lawrence
versus Justin Herbert is a very interesting conversation and rankings
won in a great matchup, but the production.

Speaker 4 (55:00):
Hasn't been there. I don't think it's going to be there.

Speaker 3 (55:02):
And won a terrible matchup and he's playing lights on
football and so you know, is there a path where
Trevor Lawrence can crush the ranking that I have for
him this week? Sure, but you know there's a losso
a lot of concerns. You know, you got to face
the Denver pass rush. Patrick Suttain is probably going to
be on Jacoby Myers in this game. At least, That's
how I'm kind of projecting it. The one thing I

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will say and in the two keys to hope for
Trevor Lawrence this week is one the increased pass game
utility in the usage that we saw last week with
Travis etn So if they're going to dial that up,
that also gives him an out. And I quietly think
everything that I look at points me to say that
this is going to be a huge Brinton Strange game.

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If you look at what the Broncos have done versus
tight ends. If Lawrence leans on Briton Strange in this game,
then he can surpass the ranking we have for him,
because quietly, since Week nine, the Denver Broncos have allowed
the third most receiving arts game and the fifth most
Fantasy points per game to tight ends. They have been
getting shredded by tight ends. And go back through all

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the box scores, don't short the Schultz carved them up,
zach Ertz had a monster day, brock Bauers had a
good day, but like you go through it, the Packers
guys as a collective had a good day versus them.
Denver has been getting shredded by tight ends. So if
Lawrence outplays the ranking, it's because ETN got good pass
game usage and did something with it after the catch,

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and Brenton Strange led the day.

Speaker 1 (56:31):
Steelers at Lions Aaron Rodgers is coming off back to
back games where he looks legitimately pretty good, and he
now faces a banged up Lions defense. They are seven
point underdogs in this game in Detroit. Where are you
ranking Rogers among quarterbacks this week?

Speaker 4 (56:46):
Debro, I don't believe it QB twenty four.

Speaker 3 (56:49):
Like, I think he's looked better, but I still think
this is Rogers playing point guard and captain checked down
in this offense. Mostly it's all yards out of the
catch and as bad as the Detroit defense, and yes,
their numbers on paper are not good at all. The
caveat to that is looking at how the Pittsburgh Steelers
offense has operated with this, like get the ball out

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of Rogers' hands, let the guys do work out of
the catch. The caveat in this matchup is looking at
this defense. They've allowed the fourth lowest yards after catch
the Lions have and the third fewest mistackles. So if
Rogers is gonna play captain check down and not stretch
the field in this game, he's gonna have maybe more

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of a tough time moving the ball than maybe we're
kind of expecting.

Speaker 1 (57:37):
He did go down the field against the Ravens two
weeks ago, he had like multiple throws.

Speaker 4 (57:42):
Broken clock. That's all I can say.

Speaker 3 (57:43):
Broken clock.

Speaker 1 (57:44):
Okay, yeah, yeah, I mean it was an outlier as
of that time, so I think that's fair. But I
just wanted to say, like push against the fact, like
like he did look good in that game, but you're right,
it was you know, it is just one game.

Speaker 3 (57:57):
A Hudginson gets to him in the first quarter and
pops him hard twy Is he gonna sitre and hang
in the hang in the pocket the rest of.

Speaker 4 (58:03):
The game fits?

Speaker 2 (58:04):
What do you think?

Speaker 6 (58:05):
Same thing as t Brow.

Speaker 5 (58:07):
I mean QB twenty four as well as he's played
the last two weeks, he's scored twenty point five and
seventeen point zero fantasy points solid day is nothing special
QB fourteen and fantasy points per game in the last
two weeks. I just I never really know exactly what
this Pittsburgh well, I do kind of know what it's
gonna look like a lot of short stuff, and I

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thought I.

Speaker 6 (58:29):
Saw that there. Aaron Rodgers is getting like seventy percent
of his passing yards is after the catch.

Speaker 3 (58:37):
Yep, yes, I saw that in the league. It's actually
seven point three percent. It's insane.

Speaker 4 (58:44):
Yeah, So let.

Speaker 1 (58:45):
Me ask you guys this, Since you guys are in
agreement on Rodgers who wins the game or not who
wins the game? But which side are you taking on
the on the plus seven for the Steelers or minus
seven for the Lions, Because I, on the one hand,
I kind of think the Lions are gonna smash. But
on the other hand, I'm like, if Tomin's getting a touchdown,
it almost feels like an odd So what direction would
you guys go?

Speaker 2 (59:01):
On the spread? Here fits Lions to.

Speaker 6 (59:03):
Cover, Lions to cover.

Speaker 5 (59:05):
But it is one of those annoying like Mike Tomlin
spots where some hot Steelers like throw a big scare into.

Speaker 6 (59:11):
The Lions exactly if not win.

Speaker 1 (59:14):
All right, last game in the Sunday Late Slate, we
saved the best for last year Raiders at Texans. The
Raiders just finished a game with seventy five yards as
a team on offense, and they now get to face
the toughest defense in football over under one and a
half even remotely startable players for the Raiders in fantasy

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this week, Deepro, I'll.

Speaker 3 (59:37):
Say the over because gent Embowers, because your other options
and Gent in a PPR league, like if Gino Smith
is back and Pete Carroll's been talking about he's probably
back this week. If Gino is back, I believe in
the checkdowns for Gent. Now in a half point setting,
are you starting Gent? Well, it depends on your options
and how much touchdown hunting you want to go. But
in PPR, can Genty still get there with like five

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to six checkdowns?

Speaker 4 (01:00:01):
Absolutely? Bowers.

Speaker 3 (01:00:03):
Again, it's a situation of what are your other options?
You know, like if if you started Kolby Parkinson over Bowers,
you're not feeling great, but you didn't feel good about
Bowers anyway. So the two starting options in this offense.
I don't want to start anybody else. Like I wrote
it up at the primer, I am not starting any
other pass catchers in this Raiders offense period, just not.

Speaker 2 (01:00:24):
Fits.

Speaker 1 (01:00:25):
I'm curious what you think I feel like with Bowers,
my case would be less that you should not start
him and more that I feel like you have to
start him, and then we're going to look back and
regret starting him just because of what I expect from
the offense as a whole, not obviously in knock on
Powers specifically.

Speaker 5 (01:00:39):
Brock Powers is always startable, you know, Bowers against the Texans,
Bowers against the Machines for more of the worlds. Like,
I don't care aving Rock Powers. He's gonna like he's
capable of going off against anyone, So I'm starting him.

Speaker 1 (01:00:52):
Well, let me ask you this quick quick quickly fits
because we just had this conversation last week. Kyle Pitts
or Brock Bowers, if you don't have room to fit
one of them into a flex spot, you have to.

Speaker 2 (01:01:02):
It's pick for one.

Speaker 5 (01:01:03):
I mean, I have Powers ranked tight end five, but
it's Pins.

Speaker 2 (01:01:06):
It's got to be okay, just want to make sure.

Speaker 5 (01:01:09):
So yeah, and then I agree with Debro bringing up
the format in standard scoring. It's over your one and
a half line, because I don't think Ashon genty is
startable in standard scoring. But if it's PPR or half,
dude to thirty four catches over his last seven games,
So if you're getting a little bit of a benefit

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from that, whether it's a full point or a half
point for each of those each catch, then I think
you can ring some value out of him that way.

Speaker 2 (01:01:38):
He's RB twenty four in half.

Speaker 1 (01:01:40):
For what it's worth here, all right, we don't need
to talk about this terrible offense anymore. Let's go to
Sunday Night football, an actually fun game. Lots of this
game got flexed into Sunday Night, which I think it
was a good decision. Patriots at Ravens. Lots of players
are ranked close to each other in this one. Let's
see some rapid fire starter sit debates from this one.
The one that they are like the least close, but

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I just wanted to have a third one in here
is quarterback Drake May or Lamar Jackson. I do think,
for what it's worth, Lamar Jackson has looked more like
himself the last couple of weeks. I thought last week,
in particular, he didn't have the biggest game because they
didn't need to. He only threw the ball twelve times,
but I thought it was the most Lamar has looked
like Lamar basically since like Week two against the Browns.
Like I was, I felt like I was watching Lamar

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again in that game in Cincinnati. Drake May, of course
has been in saying this year they are actually oh, Lamar,
she did move up in the ranking, so they are
now only two spots apart compared to they were further
apart when I put this sheet together. They're both inside
the top five. Deebra, I'll start with you on this
quick one, Drake May or Lamar Jackson.

Speaker 3 (01:02:40):
Drake May And it's not close for me QB three
versus KB.

Speaker 2 (01:02:43):
Seven, okay? Fits? Is it closer for you?

Speaker 6 (01:02:46):
It is closer for me. I echo your sentiments. On Lamar.

Speaker 5 (01:02:50):
I have him ranked QB five, and I also make QB.

Speaker 1 (01:02:52):
Three okay, So exactly in line with consensus there. The
other one I had here, Derrick Henry versus Traveon Henderson.
They were back to back earlier in the week. It
looks like there's now one player between them. Henry is
at RB twelve, Henderson at RB fourteen.

Speaker 2 (01:03:08):
Fits. Who do you prefer?

Speaker 5 (01:03:09):
I actually have Henderson RB eleven and half point PPR
Henry one spot behind at RB twelve. But it's close
enough that I have Henry ranked higher in standard scoring.

Speaker 1 (01:03:19):
Okay, So yeah, the format making a difference there, Debra,
Who do you prefer?

Speaker 2 (01:03:23):
Henry or Henderson?

Speaker 3 (01:03:24):
Trevion? I got him at RB twelve and I got
Henry at RB thirteen.

Speaker 2 (01:03:28):
Is that kind of all formats?

Speaker 3 (01:03:31):
Yeah, it's kind of all formats. I mean the fact
that the Keaton Mitchell usage is definitely concerning for for
Henry because you know you're going to get a gay
pass game utility out of him, and if he's losing
carries to somebody else, it's definitely a worry.

Speaker 1 (01:03:46):
One more head to head from this game Hunter Henry
or Mark Andrews. Now, this was back to back earlier
in the week. It is no longer back to back.
Henry is well ahead in consensus. But I will still
pose the same question that I had planned on fits
Henry or Andrews.

Speaker 5 (01:04:00):
I would rather play Andrews. I've got him tight End
eighteen Henry tight End twenty.

Speaker 6 (01:04:05):
I don't want to play either though.

Speaker 5 (01:04:06):
Yeah, Henry hasn't done anything, and he hasn't done anything
in matchups with the Bengals.

Speaker 6 (01:04:12):
Really like, I don't know, I don't want to play either.

Speaker 1 (01:04:15):
Yeah, So you're basically in line with consensus on Andrews.
It's just that you are well below consensus on Hunter.
Henry is the and I.

Speaker 6 (01:04:22):
Am good with that. I'm very good with that.

Speaker 3 (01:04:24):
Yeah, de bro I was going to say, can I
go with neither? But I'm with Fitzi Andrews just for
the touchdown equity. It's a bad matchup for both of them.
I've got Andrews a tight end twenty and Henry a
tight end twenty one.

Speaker 4 (01:04:38):
Yuck.

Speaker 2 (01:04:39):
Yeah, I don't really. I don't really want to start either.

Speaker 1 (01:04:40):
Honestly, I think I'd rather start likely if I had
to pick a tight end in this game, even though
he's ranked lower than both of them, and just hope
for an explosive play out of him.

Speaker 2 (01:04:49):
And that would be like if I was forced to
pick one.

Speaker 1 (01:04:52):
I think that's a better chance than I mean, Andrews
needs to catch touchdowns. If he doesn't, he is like
totally unplayable.

Speaker 3 (01:04:58):
I'd rather play might freaking gets say, over both of
these guys.

Speaker 4 (01:05:01):
Yuck.

Speaker 1 (01:05:02):
Yeah, yeah, don't. I don't necessarily disagree with that. We
do have a second question on Sunday Night Football. Each
week we highlight our favorite three and four star props
from the prop.

Speaker 2 (01:05:10):
Bet cheat sheet ahead of Sunday Night Football. Fits.

Speaker 1 (01:05:12):
What is your favorite three or four star prop from
the cheat sheet this week?

Speaker 5 (01:05:16):
I've got Drake May over twenty and a half rushing yards.
I gotta admit I don't really love any of the
props from this particular game. But May is averaging twenty
five point nine rushing yards a game. He's beat this
number in two of his last three games.

Speaker 6 (01:05:31):
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (01:05:32):
I think May is gonna be feeling a little frisky
on Sunday and we'll run for more than twenty yards
against the Ravens.

Speaker 4 (01:05:38):
Debra, Yeah, I'm with FITZI on this.

Speaker 3 (01:05:41):
There's certain games where you tell yourself a story and
you can kind of get a good feel of like
how the game might play out, and props you like.
I don't feel great about this game, but I will
say like, I'll go with DeAndre Hopkins. It's a three
star bet on the prop bet cheat sheet, under one
and a half receptions. This has hit fifty percent of
the time this year, so I think it definitely can
hit again.

Speaker 1 (01:06:01):
I think I like fits is prop better the Hopkins won.
I feel like in the in the big games the
Ravens played early in the year, they were more willing
to throw to hit the Hopkins on those like third
downs you know, touched young, you know, red area of
the field type plays, and with this being a really
big important game for them on Sunday Night football.

Speaker 2 (01:06:18):
I wonder if he gets two cats.

Speaker 1 (01:06:19):
I don't think it's gonna get like eight catches, right,
but like I wonder if he can get to two.
I do think Drake Mayl will run. I think that's
a good call. Yeah, bye, by you.

Speaker 2 (01:06:26):
Fits.

Speaker 5 (01:06:26):
The Ravens haven't given up a lot of rushing yardage
to quarterbacks. But then again, I mean, Loku's in their division.
It's Joe Aaron Rodgers.

Speaker 6 (01:06:34):
I mean it's.

Speaker 3 (01:06:35):
Fits you saying Aaron Rodgers cannot run in the year
twenty twenty five.

Speaker 1 (01:06:39):
My lord, it was Joe Flacco and he faced the
Browns in Week two.

Speaker 2 (01:06:43):
Yeah, it's been Yeah.

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redeem your offer. All right, guys, Monday night football, last
game here. We've got a little long, so I'll keep
this one quick. Just kind of a fun question here.
Philip Rivers made his return as a four to four
year old quarterback. It was one of the stories of
the week last week. What did you think about the
Colts offense under Rivers and what would you expect out
of him and this offense in the second week of

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this I'll call it an experiment fits.

Speaker 5 (01:07:33):
Yeah, I mean the Colts passing game was very I'm
not sure what the right word is here, condensed, constricted, shrunken.
Rivers was getting the ball out super quickly, only averaged
five point three are yards per attempt. According to Pro
Football Reference, Amer Abdullah had thirty two receiving yards, Michael
Pittman twenty six, everyone else under twenty. All of the

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Colts pass catchers averaged under ten yards per catch, except
for deep ball artist Alec Pierce, who had one catch
for sixteen yards. And like, because I don't think Philip
Rivers is scaring safeties and making them play deep. Jonathan
Taylor averaged three and a half yards per carry, So

(01:08:17):
and I know it was a tough matchup against Seattle,
but I don't know if it's gonna go that much better,
if it's gonna look any different Monday night against the
Colts or against the forty nine ers.

Speaker 3 (01:08:27):
Deepro I had a lot of the same things.

Speaker 4 (01:08:29):
FITZI just pointed out.

Speaker 3 (01:08:30):
I think it's just gonna be more game management. He's
just playing point guard. It's I mean, really, this is
kind of like the dollar store version of what Aaron
Rodgers is doing. We want to draw comparisons here. Just
get the ball out and let guys do after the catch.
But I mean it has to be thrown out here
that like the forty nine ers have not had a
lot of mistackles. The one thing I will say that
will work in rivers favor is since week eleven, the

(01:08:52):
forty nine ers had the third lowest pressure rate, so
he should have time in the pocket. You're not going
to see any deep shots.

Speaker 4 (01:08:58):
Maybe one made one, but the.

Speaker 3 (01:09:01):
Guys it's gonna be can you operate after the catch?
And this defense while they're not great they're not giving,
they're not missing a lot of tackles, so all the
yac yards aren't going to be there.

Speaker 4 (01:09:10):
But I do think it could be a huge game
for JT. They're gonna lean heavily on.

Speaker 3 (01:09:15):
Him, and if anything, bro we just saw what Tony
Pollard did versus that run defense and other backs like
they can't stop the run. This is a really good
spot for them to feed JT twenty five carries.

Speaker 4 (01:09:26):
And for him to rumble for like a buck forty.

Speaker 2 (01:09:30):
We'll go ahead and wrap things up there. We went
pretty long.

Speaker 1 (01:09:32):
This is, of course the Fantasy Semifinals, so we want
to make sure we hit as much as possible here.
Plus we had to talk about that in sand Thursday
Night game. Just some quick housekeeping for everybody. We will
not have this show next week. We are still going
to have content for everybody, but just with the holidays,
we weren't We didn't have the production bandwidth for this
particular show, so don't expect it next week. We are
still going to have a start sit show coming out

(01:09:54):
on Friday. Fitz and I are going to do a
live stream on Friday, the day after Christmas as well
to help everybody get there lineup, you know, questions answered
ahead of you know, the Fantasy Championship. Obviously, this is
what we do it all for, is is this upcoming week,
so you know, we will still be around and just
not have this particular show, and then we will have
this show for week eighteen. It'll just look a little
different when we do more of a look ahead version

(01:10:16):
of the show to twenty twenty six and beyond. So
that's just kind of what to expect for the next
couple of weeks from us. We'll go ahead and wrap
things up there for Debro and Fits. I'm Ryan Warmley.
Thanks everybody for tuning in. Best of luck in the
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